View report page

111
by 5,402 lbs. of dried milk, 809 quarts of raw milk and
54 tins of Nestles, at an increased cost of ,£800.
Many more persons made application for milk grants
owing to unemployment.
The distribution of this free milk has been an inestimable
boon, and has, without doubt, contributed very
largely to the improved condition of the children
generally.
By this means the Public Health Department and the
Maternity and Infant Welfare Centres are able to keep in
close contact with these cases, and at the same time
mothers have been able to obtain a proper supply of milk
for their children which they could not have done otherwise.
The arrangements whereby the Infant Welfare Centres
are supplied with dried milk for distribution has been continued.
The mothers attend the Centre and obtain their
supplies on presenting an order issued from the Public
Health Department, thus encouraging the mothers to
attend the. Centres where they can obtain advice both with
regard to themselves and their children.
Nutrition of Children.—I have referred in a previous
art of this report to the high rents charged for flats and
rooms.
My attention has been called by the officers of the Department
to the very serious effect upon the health of
parents and the nutrition of children, resulting from so
much of the family income being paid in rent.
Applications for free milk under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Schemes have considerably increased and the
Council has been called upon to increase the amount of
money spent in this direction.